Steve Eckley, Senior Vice-President of Hutton Hotel, has caved to Islamic supremacist demands and cancelled our entire Preserving Freedom Conference scheduled for November 11th in Nashville. Eckley notified us that they will not honor our contract. Steve said that if we showed up we would not be let in. He said he has been getting threatening letters and calls. We are currently awaiting the written notification of the cancellation.

Steve Eckley’s phone number is 720 318 4238. He said he would not let us in the hotel if we showed up. He was so ugly and hostile, it was shocking.

I was a scheduled keynote speaker, along with Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Mark Durie, William Murray, Father Keith Roderick, and a host of voices for freedom.

This is the second time in no less than a week that a major hotel has capitulated to intimidation and demands to enforce the blasphemy laws under the sharia here in America. Opposing the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth is now forbidden in the war of ideas.

Here is the email of the current manager of the Hotel, Steven Andre sandre@huttonhotel.com (hat tip Rob)

Nashville is a gateway city for refugee resettlement — whole Muslim communities are resettled in “gateway” cities like Lewiston, Maine; Shelbyville, Tennessee; St. Cloud, Minnesota; Clarkston, Georgia; and Jamestown, North Dakota. Nashville has one of the country’s highest Muslim populations.

I strongly urge all Atlas readers contact the Hutton Hotel and voice your concern with the abridgment of our cherished and hard-fought freedoms. This continuing restriction of free speech is a key front in the war on the truth. Your future, your children’s future and that of our country is at stake. I cannot impress this upon you enough.

Get this out to your lists, your friends, and all the freedom lovers that you know.

This cannot stand. Start calling. Now.

UPDATE: The cretins at Hutton Hotel are referring callers to their PR firm. Don’t accept that. Politely insist upon speaking with hotel senior management. The attempt to blow you off to their spinmeisters at their highly paid PR firm is not going to cut it.

Check this out — here’s the latest info from Lou Ann Zelenik:

Mr. Eckley told me that they cancelled the event because of “risk to their property and staff” and numerous threatening calls they received. I asked him where the threats were coming from and he refused to answer that. He indicated he did not contact the FBI or Homeland Security or local police, because he cancelled the event and there was no need to do so. I asked him if the hotel gets a bomb threat over a particular event to they simply cancel the event and fail to contact police in that case, too? He then hung up stating I was “so right wing” he didn’t want to talk any longer. The hotel has referred any contacts to their pr agency.

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And there are more helpful hints from the comments section at Atlas Shrugs . MAIN ONE is to be POLITE. This is not a request to send threats.

If this cancellation was made on the corporate level I don’t think that the PR firm should have the final authority, as if this is simply a public relations issue. Steve Eckley works for Amerimar as Senior VP of Hotels, so I’m contacting Amerimar corporate: Gerald Marshall, President & CEO along with Mr. Eckley. amerimar-webmaster@amerimar.com

In any case, I don’t think the hotel manager should be making decisions involving the abridgment of freedom of speech.”

Others responded, “I just called the hotel and was transferred to the manager. I asked the manager if it was true that Hutton Hotel had canceled the Preserving Freedom Conference. He would not answer the question but, rather, referred me to an email address of the “corporate office.” Before the call ended, I told the manager that a cancellation of this conference represented an assault on constitutionally-protected free speech and, as a result, I would never do business with them.

Email address = michael@mfcpr.com

mfcpr.com = website of MFC Public Relations in NYC.”

“Here is the email of the current manager of the Hotel, Steven Andre” sandre@huttonhotel.com

“You might also want to call the sales dept” 615-712-2319

And lastly, “I do believe their Twitter account is @HuttonHotel, for anyone interested.”

I as a muslim believe that they should not build a mosque at the Ground Zero site. Not because i hate who i am, or my religion, but it is a place of sorrow and pain and any religious building should not be in the presence of so. Also because once the mosque is built, American-Christian extremists will create havoc around the peaceful building. it may even lead to violence against the staff and the building itself. i am not an anti-american or a muslim extremist (quite frankly i do not follow the religion myself).
What it SHOULD be is a memorial. Everything aside approx 3000 people died there, it should be a place of reflection and mourning, a place or rememberance. There should be NO religous building there what so ever. It should be a memorial. I believe that any normal-thinking human being will agree.